1927 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Awards

*Archibald Prize: George W. Lambert - "Mrs Murdoch"

Works

*Max Ernst - "Forest and Dove"
*George Grosz - "Self-Portrait, Warning"
*Edward Hopper - "Automat"
*Gaston Lachaise - "Floating Figure"
*Fernand Léger - "Nude on a Red Background"
*Henri Matisse - "Reclining Nude, Back"
*Lasar Segall - "Portrait of Mário de Andrade"

Births

January to June

*1 January - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (d.1991).
*13 March - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d.2005).
*19 March - Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (d.1991).
*6 April - Joash Woodrow, English artist (d.2006).
*16 April - John Chamberlain, sculptor.
*25 April - Gloria Ida Logan, Australian artist and lecturer in arts and crafts (d.2005).
*5 May - Eva Fuka, photographer.

July to December

*14 July - Mike Esposito, comic book artist.
*23 August - Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and art theorist (d.2006).
*22 September - Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (d.2007).
*3 October - Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit artist.
*4 October - Wolf Kahn, painter.
*19 October - Pierre Alechinsky, painter, engraver and calligrapher.
*2 November - Steve Ditko, comic book artist.
*23 November - Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher (d.2005).
*24 December - John Glashan, Scottish cartoonist, illustrator and playwright (d.1999).

Deaths

*May 11 - Juan Gris, painter (b. 1887)
*June 26 - Armand Guillaumin, (b. 1841)
* Dick Martin, illustrator
* Sir Luke Fildes, painter and illustrator (b. 1844)
* Eugène Atget, photographer (b. 1857)
* Louise Abbéma, Impressionist painter (b. 1858)